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Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., found himself in a familiar place on Monday, furious his fellow Democrats were voting to fund the government without guaranteeing protections for young immigrants.

"They caved. They blinked," Gutierrez said. "Democrats are still not willing to go to the mat to allow people in my community to live in our country legally."

On Monday, Senate negotiators ended the three-day government shutdown by agreeing to a government funding deal that extends spending at current levels for three weeks and funds the Children's Health Insurance Program for six years.

But progressives like Gutierrez were furious about what was not part of the...

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